Barbara Tomash

Apogee Title(s): 

• Arboreal

• Her Scant State

Barbara Tomash is the author of four previous full-length books of poetry including, most recently, PRE- (Black Radish), and two chapbooks: Of Residue (Drop Leaf) and A Woman Reflected (palabrosa). Her book Flying in Water (Spuyten Duyvil) won the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award). Barbara’s writing has been a finalist for the Dorset Prize, the Colorado Prize, the Test Site Poetry Prize, and the Black Box Poetry Prize. She lives in Berkeley, California and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University.

Read an excerpt from Her Scant State here.

Read an excerpt from Arboreal here.